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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

Frank Gaffney: Are We Better Off Now?

I am always a little surprised that some conservatives don't know who Frank Gaffney is. This is a man, a servant to this nation truly, that is one of the few Statesman that we have. He is certainly on today's front line in this nation trying to expose Radical Islam as the diabolical menace that it is. I hope you get a chance to acquaint yourself with Frank Gaffney and his work. - W.E.

At the AIM conference in September, “ObamaNation: A Day of Truth,”we
were fortunate to have Frank Gaffney as one of two people who addressed
the audience twice. Once was on “The Muslim Brotherhood in America,” in
which he demonstrated the extent to which that organization, both
directly and through American front groups, has penetrated the highest
reaches of our government.But in this speech, he talked about whether or not the U.S. is better
off today, in terms of foreign affairs and relations with other
countries, than we were when President Obama came to power in 2009. His
conclusion is that we are not. Gaffney has vast experience, both in his
work at the Reagan Department of Defense where he was appointed
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and in
his non-profit national security work. He founded, and still serves as
president, of the Center for Security Policy.On Iran:

Iran, of course, is a problem on myriad different scores.
It is, of course, run by an Islamist regime, albeit of the Shi’ite
stripe. It has been engaged in terror; it has, for that matter, been at
war with us since 1979. It has been destabilizing its neighborhood and
any place else it can get its operatives, including now, increasingly,
as I’ll say in a moment, our own hemisphere. We’re learning that it is
engaged in cyber warfare against American entities right now, and I
suspect that that will kick up more. And, of course, at any given moment
we may well see the Strait of Hormuz closed, at least temporarily, with
all kinds of repercussions for energy flows and the world economy.
Then, as if that weren’t enough, there’s the nuclear weapons program,
which is, I believe, at the cusp of finally realizing the decades-long
ambition of the Mullahs to acquire and, perhaps, to use nuclear weapons.

On Russia, Gaffney calls the Obama “reset policy” a failure, and that
the “flexibility” Obama promised to Dimitri Medvedev, should he be
reelected, isn’t going to be good for this country. He expressed concern
about the “increasing aggressiveness of the Chinese.”On Hugo Chavez and Venezuela:

The point of Hugo Chavez is not simply to destroy
democracy and any remnant of pro-American sentiment in his own country;
he’s seeking to do it through the region much more broadly, and has
brought to power a number of proxies, in Ecuador, Bolivia, and
Nicaragua, and elsewhere for that purpose. He is, in fact, I believe,
implementing Fidel Castro’s grand design; he long ago ran out of money
to pursue it, but Hugo Chavez, with the oil wealth of his country, or at
least what used to be the oil wealth of his country, has been able to
mount it.

You can watch the highlights of Gaffney’s speech here:

Watch Frank Gaffney’s full speech below, or watch it with the transcript here: